Entries tagged with “30 poems in 30 days” from Manufactured Environments
30 Poems in 30 Days: June 2007
The project was this: write a poem a day for the month of June 2007. It's now July, and the poems are written. I've assembled the poems into an electronic chapbook in PDF format, which you can download. 30PoemsIn30Days.pdf And...
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Posted by Daniel Stout on July 3, 2007 6:47 AM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: An Ode to the Day (30/30)
30 June 2007 An Ode to the Dayby Daniel R Stout It's 5 a.m. and the birds sing their song – an ode, it is, to the day. The house lay quiet. It is too soon to tell what the...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 30, 2007 6:55 AM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: I got my iPhone today (29/30)
29 June 2007 I got my iPhone todayby Daniel R Stout I got my iPhone today. I opened up the box and the pod was inside. I carefully slide my hand into the pod – and I must say there...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · apple · butterfly · iphone · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 29, 2007 7:38 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: 100% Natural (28/30)
28 June 2007 100% Naturalby Daniel R Stout In the test tube genes mix and swirl the parents decide by proxy the attributes and proclivities of this their child to be. Hundreds of choices. Default configurations are cheapest, but who...
Tags: 100% natural · 30 poems in 30 days · interspecies · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 28, 2007 11:37 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: The din of revolution (27/30)
27 June 2007 The din of revolutionby Daniel R Stout I heard the din of revolution on the street below. The mob swayed and flowed. The sound of glass breaking punctured the air. Where are the death squads from the...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 27, 2007 10:40 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: The Smoke Billows (26/30)
26 June 2007 The Smoke Billowsby Daniel R Stout The smoke billows off the stage. Industrial fans turn as the lights begin to strobe. In the belly of the venue far below the sidewalks, an interview. Jean-Luc De Meyer talks...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · poem · poetry · the smoke billows
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 26, 2007 10:20 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: Questions (25/30)
25 June 2007 Questionsby Daniel R Stout Questions deserve answers. The pupils raise plenty and the teacher responds in her way. Educating, enticing, broadening the learning of children until the concept is understood. Teaching is, because teachers do. Now the...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · poem · poetry · teaching
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 25, 2007 8:59 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: 24 Times (24/30)
24 June 2007 24 Timesby Daniel R Stout 24 times I hoped for God 24 times I prayed for a new tomorrow 24 times I hoped for the sun 24 times I wrote a poem 24 times I listened to...
Tags: 24 times · 30 poems in 30 days · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 24, 2007 10:03 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: Side effects (23/30)
23 June 2007 Side effectsby Daniel R Stout Headache Infection Asthenia Back pain Chest Pain Dizziness Somnolence Insomnia Libido Decreased Rhinitis Pharyngitis Cough Increased Sinusitis Diarrhea Nausea Tooth Disorder Abnormal Ejaculation Blurred vision and Persistent painful penile erection unrelated to...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · poem · poetry · side effects
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 23, 2007 9:41 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: The Morning Mist (22/30)
22 June 2007 The Morning Mistby Daniel R Stout The sun sets earlier each night. If this continues, we'll be living with owls soon. Sometimes my mind can't tell the difference between the morning and evening. Have I been up...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · poem · poetry · the morning mist
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 22, 2007 9:38 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: Love (21/30)
21 June 2007 Loveby Daniel R Stout My tears leave black stains on the carpet. My blood mixes with the tears making a painting in magenta on the floor. My mind is not perfectly logical. Emotion pours through the delta...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · love · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 21, 2007 9:33 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: Have you ever been? (20/30)
20 June 2007 Have you ever been?by Daniel R Stout Spinning, spinning, spinning The turntable skips a beat Feet stop moving A cry rises up, "Hang the DJ! / Hang the DJ!" Running, running, running iPod strapped to arm The...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · music · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 20, 2007 6:55 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: The Way (19/30)
19 June 2007 The Wayby Daniel R Stout Technology has replaced religion as the cornerstone of people's lives. Technology saves the lives of sinners who don't know how to spend money. It's googlelust for the latest. Instead of the asceticism...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · apple · dell · iphone · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 19, 2007 12:31 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: The scent of her skin (18/30)
18 June 2007 The scent of her skinby Daniel R Stout Lilies of the Valley have the scent of her skin. I run my hands through her hair, shorter now that it is summer. She is sitting, watching the sun...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · lilies of the valley · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 18, 2007 12:29 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: The soul is an empty vessel (17/30)
17 June 2007 The soul is an empty vesselby Daniel R Stout The pain of life bears down, crushing souls in the process. Helplessness sets in with the dieing sun. The sting of wounds inflicted by the passage of time...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · poem · poetry · souls
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 17, 2007 12:27 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: Placing the seed (16/30)
16 June 2007 Placing the seedby Daniel R Stout Harmony flows through life and in the simplest of tasks the ethos of life in balance can be expressed. Her emotions feel evenly spaced like the bushes behind her house. Sculpted...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · poem · poetry · wholeness
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 16, 2007 11:31 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: Tune In And Never Tune Out (15/30)
15 June 2007 Tune In And Never Tune Outby Daniel R Stout The beats burn my skin. Life at 160 BPM concludes with people on the floor, twitching, from overstimulation. We've been here all night and now it's 5 a.m....
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · beats · poems · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 15, 2007 11:25 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: A Sushi Dinner (14/30)
14 June 2007 A Sushi Dinnerby Daniel R Stout I hope you are done soon eating your sushi dinner It's coming to the end of June and you will be much thinner. A healthy diet of rice and fish is...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · fish · poem · poetry · rice · sushi
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 14, 2007 10:39 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: What if Linux and Windows had a wedding (13/30)
13 June 2007 What if Linux and Windows had a weddingby Daniel R Stout What if Linux and Windows had a wedding and all the companies were in attendance that night there would be a bedding and the developers would...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · children · frankenstein · linux · poem · poetry · windows
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 13, 2007 10:34 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: A New Word (12/30)
12 June 2007 A New Wordby Daniel R Stout Lexicographers are debating whether it pays to print dictionaries. Needed perhaps in schools and libraries but the dictionary is the perfect case for database retrieval. Plug in a word and receive...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · dictionaries · poem · poetry · words
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 12, 2007 7:15 AM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: Hip-hop for Angels (11/30)
11 June 2007 Hip-hop for Angelsby Daniel R Stout There's something wrong with the socket on my wrist. When I plug in for the night, I hear music. I think it's the wiring in my arm that's picking it up....
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · angels · hip-hop · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 11, 2007 9:42 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: The Gentle Lift of Air (10/30)
10 June 2007 The Gentle Lift of Airby Daniel R Stout Turning back the clock is harder than it sounds. Year in to year out the body renews and decays the ebb of life's tide pulls us back out to...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · poems · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 10, 2007 9:42 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: Dark Ecstasy (9/30)
9 June 2007 Dark Ecstasyby Daniel R Stout The glare of the screen reflects in her eyes. She crys. The distance of love is painful. Far apart she is with her beloved. She peels the days off the calendar individually,...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · dark ecstasy · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 9, 2007 8:31 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: They say it’s your birthday (Limbs) (8/30)
8 June 2007 They say it's your birthday (Limbs)by Daniel R Stout Pretty soon they'll stop taking off people's limbs because of war injuries and start removing limbs because the artificial ones will be better. Artificial limbs think for themselves,...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · artificial limbs · poem · poetry · supermen
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 8, 2007 7:43 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: Will the sky be blue? (7/30)
7 June 2007 Will the sky be blue?by Daniel R Stout The reports appear on the screen. Thunderstorms imminent ... hail expected ... Tornadoes possible. The phone rings. "Hail," says Grandfather. "The size of baseballs." The windows are open, and...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · poem · poetry · sky blue
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 7, 2007 9:39 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: A brick through glass (6/30)
6 June 2007 A brick through glassby Daniel R Stout There's a space between night and dawn when evil rolls out and people are fearful. The timid and the regular are long asleep – not caring what excitements the night...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · broken glass · evil · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 6, 2007 11:16 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: My iPhone died today (5/30)
5 June 2007 My iPhone died todayby Daniel R Stout My iPhone died today, and for that I am glad. I don't need its habit of ringing at inappropriate times. The world is in order and I am at peace...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · apple · iphone · poetry · rubbish
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 5, 2007 9:30 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: A chance to survive (4/30)
4 June 2007 A chance to surviveby Daniel R Stout The wood tick crawls along my leg, looking for a place to suck my blood. Nature seems in balance in this small place in the field by the trees. The...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · nature · poems · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 4, 2007 12:53 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: True Love (3/30)
3 June 2007 True Loveby Daniel R Stout True love waits by the elevator. She is going down ten floors to the streets of the city. I walk towards the elevator and notice her smile. It is welcoming. "What took...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · city · elevator · poem · poetry · true love
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 3, 2007 9:34 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: A Dormant Muscle (2/30)
2 June 2007 A Dormant Muscleby Daniel R Stout My throat burns with a hundred unasked questions. My mouth is mute before a hundred and one strangers. Two hundred words I could speak right now if my tongue would loosen...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · a dormant muscle · poems · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 2, 2007 11:29 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: The Freedom of Liberation (1/30)
1 June 2007 The Freedom of Liberationby Daniel R Stout We're holding court in a booth at the back of the tavern. Friends listen closely, and enemies even closer. We two sit in opposition to the many. There is no...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · freedom · liberation · poems · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 2, 2007 11:24 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: My Glorious Song (0/30)
31 May 2007: I started a day early to get the creative juices flowing. Here is poem no. 0 of 30. My Glorious Songby Daniel R Stout I've spent days walking on beaches that never ended. I've looked into a...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · creativity · poems · poetry · writing
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 2, 2007 11:19 PM · Permalink
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